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yeah that’s what going to do, after i finish a brief report on my ge paper.

*breathe*

been caught up with TOO much work. and i seriously thought that i would be able to get some much-needed sleep and rest after this week of 3 presentations, a report and a test. but no, i was wrong. i would say i took a wrong step. cos after the third presentation yesterday, i was lying around on the floor, whipped out my organiser and started listing the to-do list. day-by-day. i haven’t had this habit for a long time, but it seems that ever since school started i’ve been diligently recording all the stuff i need to do in the funky orange diary. yes it helps, but it’s depressing too.

i figured i don’t have time to rest at all. but who cares? time is made of rubber. i shall stretch it and twist it and burn it in any way i like it. wahaha. which means that i shall sleep undisturbed for more than ten hours after my ge dash tonight. i’m already so damn excited about the prospect of waking up when i’m fully charged, and not when i’m woken up by my sometimes-it-rings-sometimes-it-doesn’t phone alarm.

so today, i gave up swimming for library work. as in research for my ge. so i made a trip down to jurong east library again, which wasn’t that unpleasant, since there’s lots of books which are good and really interests me. i wish i had the luxury of time to spend a month there doing nothing but read. yeah, i wish. one month wouldn’t be enough, but at least it’ll be better than nothing.

chinese new year’s coming! and for that reason i shall cheer up. distract myself from all the work by going crazy once in a while.

wheeheehee!!

i need to be more organised.

i need to be more organised.

i need to be more organised.

tadah! itz only the second week of school and i’m totally swamped by the disgusting piles of readings, tutorials, assignments and projects. so far, there’s only mention of one or two quizzes, but the projects and presentations are enough to kill man. i have two presentations next week, i think. two more next next week. and more to come. and i have to churn out an executive summary each week. and miscellaneous assignments and tutorials.

ugh.

ok considering the significance of the examinations, i should be happily working on my projects right now. in fact, i’m quite happy doing the slides for one of the presentations next week. but you see, there’s this bitch in one of my project groups. she was the intruder of our group, and acted as if she’s the next big thing. and chose zouk as the presentation topic, WITHOUT asking any other group member whether they object or not. only after the tutor marked the topic to our group did she turn around and asked if we mind. bloody slut. as if it means that zouk will give her free vouchers and such if she does a presentation on them. as if she has learnt a lot about zouk while she’s clubbing away. as if clubbing is part of the presentation. stupid bimbo. and she always has that disgusted look on her face, as if we commoners simply disgust her. not to mention her belly fats. of course, she’s not FAT, but she just likes wearing hipsters, short skirts and tops which show off her fats. i simply hate people who do that, especially if they are irritating people. AND my friend mentioned that she was one of the finalists for miss singapore. my ass ah! she doesn’t look pretty at all, i’m serious! her teeth isn’t straight or white. she doesn’t even qualify for cute or sweet looking. i susspect there’s quite a number of air pockets in her head.

well, well. i still have to work with her, or should i say IT, for 12 weeks. may heaven bless me!

regarding tutorials and lectures, i used to think that if the tutors are lousy, i can always depend on the lecturers. and if the lecturers suck, i can depend on tutors. it’ has always worked for me. till now. i think i’d have to rely on myself this semester. damn.

to illustrate the idea:

i had a 4 hour seminar yesterday, which could probably be shortened to 3 hours, if the tutor didn’t talk so much. and i swear he wasn’t talking about anything particularly useful. he was just giving analogies so that we understand how to work on the case studies. note that i do appreciate tutors who kindly explain their mind-boggling theories and stuff like that to us simpletons. but we are not that simple, till we require 3 similar analogies on a set of simple instructions. and he probably spend 15 minutes on the analogies.

and he accused me of dozing off in class, when my eyes were wide open.

what’s his problem man?!

if these are all the trade-offs for a 3 day week, then i’d rather attend school more often.

uh oh. i am beginning to experience the disadvantages of having the computer in my room. this being voted the most popular computer by my sister and me, it means that i have an intruder in my room anytime of the day. to my horror i entered my room this afternoon and heard the radio in my room. when i wasn’t even in the room yet. so there sat my sister, gleefully clicking on the mouse. sitting on my chair. at my desk. the only chair in my room. the only desk in my room. with her supply of water, her handphone, organiser and pen right in the middle of my desk. i swear i was just about to start work.

so i made the effort to go to the storeroom and check out the foldable chairs from ikea. nah, too much trouble going through all the junk to get to the chair. so i went up to my brother’s room and kidnapped his ikea chair. ta-dah. seating arrangement settled. and i ahem-ed my sister into moving all her stuff to one corner of the desk. tadah. unsightly clutter gone. i took a deep breath. and collapsed on the desk. cos there’s simply too little space!!!!

ugh. plus my own miscellaneous clutter which has always been minimal, the extra mugs and bottles of water on my desk which i haven’t got to getting rid of, and the bottles of hashima and bird’s nest my admin head gave me for xmas. and the books and notes which i need for next week’s tutorials. come on, i even moved the other textbooks and notes into the cupboard, which is on the other side of my room. still insufficient space.

i miss my ex-desk.

i have to start thinking of new ways to maximise space. i cannot stand clutter!!

to my utter disgust i realised most of my first pay is gone. phone bills, new phone, textbooks, miscellaneous stuff. broke, broke broke! and i went on a shopping galore today. i’ve started shopping for chinese new year, cos i remember the frenzy i was in last year when i had to collect a pair of altered jeans on chinese new year eve. so i decided to start early this early. sad to say, i’m still jean-less. but i’ve bought 3 fantastic (or so i think) t-shirts and reasonable prices and i know i’ll wear them for a long time. and g2000 was having a mega sale, and their clothes are just so much better than dano’s. so i bought 2 pairs of pants at 50% off, for my professional attachment which is coming soon. so i’m totally broke.

yes, i feel extremely guilty for spending so much, especially since i know that sum of money is supposed to last me for the whole semester. but hey, i think so far i’ve spent on the necessities. i have a long necessities shopping list. ok i swear i’ll try and control myself after my next big expenditure: hair colouring. at least i’ve found a budget alternative which is good too.

speaking of professional attachment, i emailed the nice nbs people and asked if i could postpone it to year 3 sem 1. will have to skip 2 weeks of classes then. and i’d have to justify my reason through email, to my ex-accounting I tutor, who is super nice. now, what is a terrific reason for deferring my PA, other than money factors? i think i need to be a scriptwriter again. or rather, i need to spend time thinking whether it is really worth it skipping 2 weeks of classes for the money. of course, if nothing goes wrong, by year 3 sem 2, i’d be left with 1 core module and 2 general electives. and the 1st two weeks wouldn’t be toooo important. *pondering*

my dad’s ignoring me. cos i’ve changed my phone without informing him. his reason was that i should have informed him, so i could trade in my mum’s phone and leave my ex-phone with him. the fact is, my phone was already a little faulty. my mum’s phone totally fine and new. it doesn’t make senese to trade in a brand new phone and keep a faulty phone right?! besides, it’s not as if i’m spending money any-oh-how, i’ve waited for my 2 year contract to be up before trading in the phone. and signing up on another new plan IS a must because my previous plan is totally not worth the money! so i seriously don’t see any fault with myself for changing my phone.

i think my dad’s angry with me just because i didn’t officially declare to him i’m changing my phone. but i’ve been harping on trading in my phone for the past few months what! he should have got the hint. anyway, just a matter-of-fact, i’m not like my siblings who get 2 phones, or get expensive camera phones, and my phone has lasted longer than theirs. so why am i the victim? i mean, he scolds them for changing phones unnecessarily too, but can he come up with a better reason for being angry with me? unless he comes up with reasonable reasons, i’m gonna ignore him too. after all, i don’t see any problems with me on this whole bloody issue.

it’s back to school again. and i had to skip the first lesson, only to fail my driving test. sigh. maybe i shouldn’t even have gone in the first place. wahahah. but i realised my general electives IS quite fun and interesting, despite the majority of engineering students in the class of about 20. i strongly suspect that they are there because this module only has 3 hours of lectures every week and theoretically speaking, there’s not many things to learn. but i think some of them are too “engine” for this course, which is, for your information, known as “asthetics and creative use of the 2D media”. get what i mean? i mean, engine students like weiwei would most probably do well in such courses. but there’s always engine geeks in engine courses, who can’t appreciate anything which doesn’t involves calculations and force, mass, and such. and i think the professor was extremely upset when they failed to figure out what she wanted us to figure out. gosh. who’s gonna suffer more? the professor? the engine people? wahahhaha.

i’ve just spent a grand total of 159 bucks on my four textbooks. gosh. broke, broke!! and almost 20 bucks on notes already. this is a very bad beginning, i have to say. and all the lecturers and professors and faulty staff hounding us about final year projects, professional attachments and stuff. gosh. i hope i survive this semester.

to be fair, there’s something good too. and maybe bad. my written exams this semester are worth 30%, 33%, 50%, 50% and 70%. tadah!!! that means lots of projects. yum yum, since i always do better in projects than quizzes and exams. less studying. wheeee! and of course, a very hectic semester with lots of deadlines.

and i wanna swim swim swim. and there’s no sunny weather today. wish i had the time to go swimming yesterday. it was so bright and sunny yesterday! not fair…. not fair not fair not fair!!

i flunked my driving test again!! despite the weather which cleared just before my test, despite the very nice and friendly tester, despite the relatively light traffic conditions, despite the numerous practices i had. I FLUNKED MY SECOND ATTEMPT!! damn. ok, i’m not that sad, cos there’s only 2 major errors which killed me. no, no immediate failures. just accumulation of small points which made me fail. no, i’m not that sad either, cos i’d rather fail a couple of times than to pass and drive with no confidence in future.

i’ll pass the third time round.

and i bought a new phone! i’m now a happy and miserable nokia-turned-samsung user. happy because samsung phones are oh-so-pretty. miserable cos i took 3 bloody mins to sms a super short msg yesterday. still getting used to my new baby. and introducing mayday to it. i shall think of a name for my new baby soon. wheeeee!

wenwen’s flown away!! ok this sounds like wenwen is a bird. no, no, wenwen’s my buddee who flew off to america for one whole semester!! all the best, wenwen and enjoy yourself to the max!! i’m so proud of you you made it there!! and you look funny playing with kids wahahahah.